Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Hakeem Amode, tells DANIEL AYANTOYE why the planned
But the government said these were corpses they picked across some parts of the state after the incident of the EndSARS protests. What do you think about this?
We believe the system of government we have in Lagos State is a democracy and in such a system of governance, everything is supposed to be done openly. In the interest of justice and for the love of those who lost their loved ones, whether we believe that is what happened or not, we must have independent inquiries so that all of the information can be corroborated and we can know what happened.
This information should have come out a long time ago. Have they ever at any point informed Lagosians that they have in the morgue 103 persons that died during the #EndSARS? They did not until now. This is information that is coming out as a result of the leaked memo. That is why we are asking for an independent inquiry because there is no reason for us to be talking about this now if the state government has been truthful to Lagosians. We need to also find out these individuals’ names.
History will be kind to him if he does what is right and if he doesn’t, history will also have it. I think the opportunity for people to come and identify their relatives’ corpses should be given; a time limit can be fixed and if by then, nobody shows up, that is when the government can say they can do a mass burial. Some people still believe that their relatives were just missing and not dead. You will also find out that some of them still post notices about missing persons.
The APC government took Lagosians for granted for many years, and the result of that is what you saw during the last election. So, it is no news. Lagos was ready to change everything during the election but we all know that characterised that election. You can see where we are now. Life is so hard for people in Lagos; people are suffering and till now, they have not said how they want to alleviate the sufferings of the people.
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